Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.

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And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?

Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.

To date a girl for her look is like eating a bird for it song

Bolts of energy swirled in the air and streamed into Dave’s butt. Dave sneezed ... No. He farted through his nose.

I always just get excited about the character. When something rings true for me, then I'm ready to do it.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

The longer a dead-end, the more it looks like a road.

Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.